Radio Sultanate of Oman

 began broadcasting on a 1KW transmitter on 30th July 1970, just one week after HM Sultan Qaboos bin Said came to power, from a small station at Bait al Falaj in Ruwi, near Muscat. In the following year, transmissions began from Salalah.

In 1972, a new medium wave station was inaugurated and in 1979, the Muscat and Salalah stations were linked by satellite. The number of Arabic transmission hours increased from four hour per day in 1970 to round-the-clock transmission from 1 November 1998.